Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-28
COLUMBIA CONQUERS.
The American Sioop Volunteer Sails
Away from the British Thistle
III Beautiful Manner.
The Captain OF the thistle Says some;hipg
IS wrong with Der Bottom and
He VIII Examine 1t.
THE WEATHER UNFAvoRABLE.


Yachts this morning with any but light
5reezes and the public disappointment
will doubtless be as manifest as public in
terest. 1t is 10 De hoped that the result
Of to-day's contest in the lower bsy will
not prove repetition of the tlrs3 trial
race. If the race ig settled today it viii
be under conditions most favorable 10
the Scotch cutter.
NO CHANGE FOR THE BITTER.
FORT WADswoRTa, Sept. -, $3.50 =. 70.
"A heavy fog hangs over the bay. o.
jects mile distant calHot be recognized.
There is absolutely 70 wind. The sun is
making q feeble attempt TO penetrate the
fog. From present indications there can
besno race to-day. The Thistle lies AT her
old anchorage, her main sail snd her club
top sail set. A grest crowd of small
crafts surround the Scotch beauty. Ey-
erything but the wind is right for the
race. The Volunteer lies over near the
AtlantiC club house. Both vessels are
trying to get down the bay on the light
breeze. They have every sail spread.
The Thistle has alWays done her bess
wCrk in light winds and there is small
chance OF there being any more than
light wind to-day. There is considerable
betting on the race, but it is governed By
patriotism in almost all cases, the odds
ranging ell the way from ten to nine down
to two to one in fsvar OF the Volunteer
PREPARING TO START.
SANDY HOOK, Sept. q, 1910 8. NJ
The haze has cleared way and the This-
lie end Volunteer are now 20 the we-ttgr
side Of the starting line preparing to
start. There are over 200 yachts and
steamboats, ABOUT them.
FORT WADsWORTH, Sept. u, 1922 Q.
m.-The preparatory signal to get ready
mas just been fired.
THE START.
FORT WADSWoRTH, Sept. 27-The
Thistle crossed the line ct 1885 and the
Volunteer one minute later.
THE RACE IN DETAIL,
NEW YORK, Sept 27.-Fhe Scotch cut.
ter Thistle and the American slo0p Vol.
uatetr hSve met in the first 1857 contest
for Ame:ca's cup, ard the Volunteer beat
the foreigner so badly that The la1ter's
most enthusiastic champions have only
10 sGy that something lnsxpdCable is me
matter with the Thistle. It was 8 great
dsY. The people who went dowa on the
three hundred steamships, river steam
bo2tE, tugs, stesm yachts, sailing yachts,
and other craft, numbered 0,GC0
and the scene presented by the l2teroge-
ne0us nsss OF crafts before end after he
start cannot be described. They covered
an area Of fifty OF more acres on the water,
end they kept mp noise throughout the
race that startled the people whc came to
see the event II wts An incessaat gan
firing, steam whistling and cheering that
inspired the widest kind OF enthusiasm,
but sadly interfared with the duties CT
the officials who had business TO attend to
| This great fotilla was PROMPTLY at
the scene OF the start and they covered
the ground off Owls Heed IN q way tnat
made doubt in the minds Of many that
g good start would be made. From early
morning there was No sign of g breeze
and a dirty haze hung over the water in
diCative of q continuous thick atmosphere
With favorable surrounding the race
could hsva been started at 1880 this
morning but ct that hour there
was not air enough TO blow
match out, and the judges waited to
start the racers until there should appear
a chsnca of getting the boats over the
course IN the prescribed seven hours.
That appearance did not come until noon.
At that time ripple came over the water
from the BOuth and east, and the signal
wss given to clear the course. The
Thistle and Volunteer bad coue
out from their respective anchoraga4nd
were loafIg about north OF 3 the
! line that had been formed between the
Electra and buoy eighteen, opposissO WIS
| He3d on Long Island. The ThisJse moved
about in very lively fashion id the light
air. She appeared TO lake much pleas
ure in running past and around the Vol
unteer, which she did several times and
every time met with loud applause from
admiring spectators all of whom
seemed confident and willing she should
yin the FIRST race. At 30 the Electra
fred the notice gun and at u 80 the
start. After the latter the yachts mad five
minutes to cross tie line. If either had
taken longer thsn five minutes her time
Of start would have been registered st
the expiration Of Che FIVE minutes.
The boats crossed as follows:
Thistle l2hrs., 53m., 3s. Volunteer
12hrs., sim, 5Ss. The Thistle rot only
had the nearer position when the order 30
Start Yves given, bat she also went
through the water faster. She got over
the line one minute and fifty two seconds
ahead. The eight miles an hour wind
was then blowing from south southeast,
and the yachts had to sail close
on the wind for the first mark, buoy 10,
on the southwest spot, which bore south
bY west eight and one-half miles. Away
they went, over on the port tack and at
once the Volunteer began to overhaul the
Thistle. The first tack was in toward
Cation, Staten Island, and on that tack
Of fifteen minutes or less the Volunteer
showed her superiority over the Thistle
that left no doubt of the result. The
Volunteer went by the cutter as though
the latter was anchored, and she stayed
10 front to the end. The Thistle was
more than little bothered by the ex-
cursion bos's On that first tsck. TIE
steamer crossed her bows and gave her
much swash, but after that the steamers
hung to the Volunteer, the Leader,
fahd throughout the rest Of the
day she suffered three times
at lesst as much as the Thistle did, From
the way they kicked up the water and
smut out the wind it Was no longer race,
but procession. The wind varied in
locality and strength. Il shifted betwet n
southeast and southwest, and some
times one bost mad it when the
other did not. The result
WIS most decided victory for the
American sloop. Beating, stretching